Pennsylvania Republican Sean Parnell on Friday praised American troops for their service in Afghanistan and blamed the “suits” for what he described as a “debacle” amid Taliban forces quickly taking over much of the country.
The president said he had the choice of either following through with Trump’s withdrawal plan or sending more troops back into Afghanistan to secure the country.
British intelligence services have reportedly determined that UK jihadis have travelled to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban.
Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported Friday that Canada has dispatched “an unknown number of Special Forces” troops to Afghanistan to evacuate staffers from the embassy in Kabul.
Taliban insurgents claim they added the capitals of Herat, Kandahar, Badghis, and Helmand provinces to their string of conquests in about 12 hours on Thursday, moving on to attack government forces in the heart of two more provinces, Ghor and Zabul.
A senior aide to President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan complained Thursday that former President Donald Trump’s 2020 agreement with the Taliban was responsible for Kabul’s prodigious losses in the past several months because they offered the terrorist group undue “legitimacy.”
A senior Biden official at the State Department expressed sadness Friday that the administration was “powerless” to protect women and girls in Afghanistan from the Taliban.
President Joe Biden’s team has increasingly grown defensive following the swift Taliban seizure of key Afghan cities after he withdrew American troops.
The head of the National Congress Party (NCP) of Afghanistan, Latif Pedram, told Chinese state propaganda newspaper the Global Times in an interview Friday that America is “a face of aggression, bloodshed, murder, looting, and crimes against humanity.”
The British government is surging hundreds of soldiers back into Afghanistan, ostensibly to help evacuate some 4,000 people with British citizenship who are still in the Islamic republic.
The Taliban’s top spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, insisted in an interview with the Kurdish outlet Rudaw on Thursday that the jihadist terrorist organization “will not be violent” when it eventually takes over governing Afghanistan.
The European Union (E.U.) on Thursday warned the Taliban terror group it would be isolated by the international community if it seized power through violence and imposed Islamic rule.
Islamist Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan expressed frustration with President Joe Biden on Wednesday night about his lack of communication with the country over neighboring Afghanistan, nonetheless dismissing claims that he was glued to his phone awaiting a call from Biden.
The Taliban terror group is allegedly “going door-to-door” in some regions of Afghanistan to select girls as young as 12 years old to become “sex slaves” for the group’s jihadi fighters, News Corp Australia’s News.com.au reported Thursday.
The Pentagon announced Thursday it will deploy three infantry battalions, or roughly 3,000 troops, to assist with the reduction of American civilians at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the evacuation of Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants from the country.
Chinese state media signaled Beijing could play a major role in talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban on Wednesday as the latter rapidly accumulated territorial gains this week.
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday sent special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to a meeting in Doha, Qatar, to ask Asian and Middle Eastern powers not to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government after it conquers Afghanistan.
Acting Finance Minister Khalid Payenda on Wednesday resigned his position with the government of Afghanistan and fled the country after the brutal Taliban insurgency gained control of vital border crossings and captured three more provincial capitals, bringing its total to nine.
A former Afghan ambassador told the Wall Street Journal this week that Afghan troops are quitting in droves in the face of mounting Taliban attacks because “they haven’t even been fed properly” by their “corrupt” government.
President Joe Biden showed no signs of changing his plan to withdraw from Afghanistan on Tuesday, despite the Taliban taking control of multiple cities.
German humanitarian development worker Sybille Schnehage has predicted as many as three million Afghan asylum seekers could head to Europe in the near future.
The Taliban’s swift advance across Afghanistan has created an enormous refugee crisis, as thousands of civilians are displaced from their homes by the brutal insurgency and humanitarian aid grows difficult to deliver.
China and Russia began joint military drills in the former’s northwestern region on Monday amid the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and renewed efforts by both to become more relevant players there.
Taliban forces reportedly captured the provincial capital of Kunduz on Sunday, bagging their third capital city in a single day after taking Sheberghan in Jawzjan province and Sar-e-Pul, capital of a province with the same name.
(AFP) — Britain has warned all UK nationals in Afghanistan to leave the country immediately due to the “worsening security situation” as fighting intensifies.
Taliban gunmen on Friday assassinated Dawa Khan Menapal, chief media and information officer for the government of Afghanistan, while he was driving west of Kabul.
The Taliban terror group killed eight people and injured 20 others in an attack on Kabul on Tuesday night that targeted the home of Afghanistan’s acting defense minister, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, Afghanistan’s interior ministry confirmed Wednesday.
The U.S. announced that it is broadening eligibility criteria to allow more Afghans and their families to qualify for U.S. refugee status.
A U.S. Army aerial strike on Monday near the capital city of Afghanistan’s western Helmand province, Lashkargah, reportedly killed up to 40 Taliban fighters, the nation’s Khaama Press reported Monday.
Taliban terrorists “captured and executed” a Reuters photojournalist in July as he covered a military offensive led by the jihadist group near the Afghan city of Kandahar, an Afghan security official claimed to India Today on Tuesday.
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on Monday blamed the “sudden” withdrawal of U.S. troops for his country’s deteriorating security situation, as Taliban insurgents closed in on three provincial capitals and hit the Kandahar airport with rocket artillery.
U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko accused top U.S. military officials in an interview on Thursday of knowing “how bad the Afghan military was” but keeping problems hidden, leading to shockingly swift battlefield gains by the Taliban insurgency after American troops withdrew.
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) released a report Thursday claiming Uyghur terrorists from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are attempting to carve out an Uyghur state in Afghanistan.
A Taliban spokesman confirmed Thursday that Taliban thugs murdered comedian Nazar Mohammad in southern Afghanistan shortly after a video went viral that showed Mohammad being abducted and beaten.
The Taliban terror group has launched 22,000 attacks on the Afghan military in the past four months and retaken much of the country’s territory as part of a nationwide offensive following U.S. President Joe Biden’s announced delay of the American military withdrawal.
A delegation representing the Taliban terror group met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin on Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan’s security issues, China’s state-run Xinhua press agency reported.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said Tuesday the United States “really messed it up in Afghanistan” by foolishly believing it could keep the Taliban out of power.
Members of the Taliban terror group allegedly beheaded an Afghan man in May who previously worked as a translator for the U.S. Army, the Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said on Friday there will be no peace in Afghanistan until President Ashraf Ghani leaves power and a new national government acceptable to the Taliban is installed in Kabul.
Tajikistan held the largest military exercise in its history on Thursday, drilling its entire 100,000-strong army plus 130,000 reservists as instability grows in its southern neighbor Afghanistan. 20,000 of those reserves have been deployed to reinforce the Afghan border.